It's alot like the survival horror genre. They just decided to uniaterally think it's something people don't want.

But, the resurgence of Fire Emblem proves that the audience is still there.

Disgaea has always gone overboard. It's definitly niche. But, Shining Force 4 has the potencial to rival FE. It was always better, but SEGA didn't believe in it. Once camelot became a Nintendo second party they haven't even tried.

For sega some of the console failures seemed to drag along the interesting franchises they had on those while creating some good ones to be fair. I alway thought that Shining Force took a hit on those mistakes.

Sonic Mania that game that was fan made? It just puts on shame mostly everything that sega has done with the franchise for about a decade.

About Yakuza it's thanks to Zero that restored sega's interest in localisation, a unexpected success that it's well deserved.

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Originally Posted by Rubeus

Almost forgot one TRPG series, the Super Robot Taisen series is always alive, but it's mostly because of the anime, there's very little tactics in the games I assume.

While I do like SRW games and own several of them honestly it's more about cinematics than actual well thought strategy. It's not much about difficulty even when enemies got tons of health and devastating attacks you just need to customize 2 mech upgrades and pilot skill points to break those games.